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ONE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP

CHAMPION vs CHAMPION

ONE Fighting Championship is Asia’s largest and most prestigious mixed martial arts event. ONE FC features the best Asian fighters and the largest pan-Asian media broadcast.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is the fastest growing sport in the world today. In true Darwinian fashion, the sport of MMA allows for any martial arts style to compete against any martial arts style in the freest form of artistic expression for martial artists. MMA athletes utilize the best techniques from any and all martial arts in order to compete standing up or on the ground.

CHAMPION vs CHAMPION features 16 World Champions and National Champions who will compete in mixed martial arts to be crowned the best in Asia.

ONE FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP: CHAMPION vs CHAMPION

Fighters

Eduard Folayang

A Sol Kwon

ONE Lightweight World Champion

Credentials

HEAT FC Champion

Team Lakay

Team

CMA

77.1kg

Weight

155lbs / 70.3kg

Country

Story

A Sol Kwon (19-6) is a HEAT FC Champion and one of the top champions from Korea. He is known by many as the Korean Wanderlei Silva due to his wild and aggressive striking style. Eduard Folayang (9-1) is the reigning URCC welterweight champion, a MC Superfight Champion and a Wushu gold medallist.

It will be a clash of styles with Folayang's unorthodox Wushu pitted against Kwon's more wild and aggressive striking. Kwon will be looking to finish the fight on the feet. Although Folayang loves a stand up scrap, his best chance of success is probably to use his Wushu-based wrestling skills to take the fight to the floor.

Kwon is on a six fight win streak and Folayang has won his last four. So both fighters carry a lot of momentum and confidence heading into this flight. Both warriors will be looking to steal the other man's thunder. Kwon and Folayang are regularly a mentioned as being among the top lightweight contenders and the winner can lay a legitimate claim to being one of the best 155 Ibs fighters in the region.

Fighters

Mitch Chilson

Eric Kelly

MC Champion

Credentials

Philippines Featherweight Champion

Evolve MMA

Team

Muayfit

65.8kg

Weight

65.8kg

Country

Story

Mitch Chilson is probably one of the most recognizable fighters in Singapore. He is a 2 x MC Superfight Champion who is 9-1 in pro and amateur MMA fights. Eric Kelly is the reigning URCC Featherweight champion and has a perfect record of 5-0.

Both men are unbeaten is pro MMA, meaning that at ONE Fighting Championship: CHAMPION vs CHAMPION, something will have to give. Kelly's ground game is outstanding and he has submitted every fighter he has ever faced. A technical Muay Thai striker, Chilson has dangerous strikes, but he has also been working tirelessly on all aspects of his game. He could make an enormous statement by defeating URCC Champion, Kelly.

This fight will be a battle for featherweight supremacy between two of the top 145 Ibs fighters in the region. Absolutely anything could happen, but one thing is for certain; only one man will emerge with his perfect record intact. Experts predicts a KO or submission in the late rounds.

Fighters

Vuyisile Colossa

Ma Xing Yu

Muay Thai World Champion

Credentials

Sanda Champion

Team Colossa

Team

Extreme Sanda

70.3kg

Weight

155lbs / 70.3kg

Country

Story

Vuyisile Colossa is a Muay Thai world champion and one of the most exciting stand up fighters ever to make the transition to MMA. The only blemish on the MMA career of the Hong Kong-based South African was a controversial decision loss to Eduard Folayang. Many experts at ringside felt Colossa had done enough to at least get the draw.

Ma Xing Yu is a Sanda champion with world class stand up from China.

This matchup will be another classic clash of styles between two fighters who have won numerous titles between them. Colossa has impressed a lot of people in his MMA career, but Ma will be looking to prove that his Sanda is superior to the Muay Thai of his Hong Kong-based opponent. Experts believe that this fight will end in a KO.